I like the idea in general, but there must be a cleaner and more modular way of doing it instead of dumping everything in one location.

In an area where many devs are pushing to modularize things (think current win32ss and future minwin), this moves the tree in the opposite direction. If you were a kernel and win32ss guy, you’d then need to have all the icons for the whole OS in your WC just to build the area you’re interested in.

This is a kinda ridiculous analogy, but imagine if you had to checkout KDE just to build the linux kernel.

Ged.

From: Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Jared Smudde
Sent: 24 July 2015 02:39
To: ros-dev@reactos.org
Subject: [ros-dev] Unify system icons into one central folder

Hello. I am Jared Smudde aka. Pi_User5. I propose that we move most of the icons in trunk into a central folder in the media folder. Some icons will need to stay because they might be application specific. The folder can be called icons and it would be organized according to http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html. This way, we can eliminate duplicate icons thus making trunk slightly smaller. It will also make changing ReactOS to a different icon theme much easier. This idea was suggested by gigaherz and I would like to see it done. Thanks!

Jared